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Quote from orwell in "1984." he said the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final most sensible -- essential command. it really sounds a lot like what the president is saying. >> i'm afraid you're right, anderson. a healthy democracy depends heavily upon a robust debate with different points of view being freely expressed. that's the whole essence of the first amendment. and the president for a while now, but more relentlessly is trying to suppress the voices of democracy, suppress the voices of the press, denigrate the press. you can't believe what you h...

Follows, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command. here now is novelist and orwell biographer, d.j. taylor. the author of "orwell: the life." d.j., welcome. >> very nice to be here, brooke. >> when you heard the comments made by this president yesterday, you tell me what crossed your mind. >> well, i immediately thought, because this has been going on for some time now for a couple years, i thought this is the latest installment, the latest chapter in the trump orwell story. because as you remember, as soon as he was inaugurate...

Slonly remfresh useseep one in ion-powered melatonin ht. to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh -your nightly sleep companion. welcome back. something president trump said during his speech to veterans yesterday is drawing some unflattering comparisons. her's what he said in defense of his tariffs on u.s. trade partners. listen. >> and just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> critics are comparing that to a line from george orwell's novel "1984" about a nightmarish authoritarian state. "a party told ...

Distopian nov bel a government that destroys facts and manipulates its public. we report, you decide. consider what you just heard from the president. compare it to this line from the book published seven decades ago. the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command. maybe the president is a george orwell fan? >> he's a big reader, so -- no, obviously, it shouldn't take a panel to discuss the fact that that's just a completely inappropriate statement from a sitting u.s. president. but what i thought was interesting was that yesterday a...

The book that will ring eerily reminiscent. the party told you to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command. i'll add there, wolf, take it out of the fictional realm, i'll add that in many authoritarian countries around the world lead by what we would call authoritarian dictators, there is a lot of state-run, state-controlled media. no free and independent press. basically you can only believe what the top person tells you to believe. the thing that worried me the most is not that donald trump said it. it's the cheering that you heard in that clip i...